means Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about means.
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”
- Thurgood Marshall
“My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.”
- Thom Mayne
“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”
- Alexander Calder
“Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.”
- Michael Ramsey
“The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.”
- Clifford Geertz
“Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!”
- Alexander Alekhine
“Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.”
- Margot Asquith
“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.”
- W. H. Auden
“Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.”
- Jack Welch
“Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.”
- Plato